Editorial Board
John Enser
Olswang
John is a partner at Olswang and provides advice to clients active in all aspects of the media and communications business. His clients include record companies, broadcasters, surviving dotcoms, and household name retailers, as well as ISPs, portals, software developers
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and suppliers of interactive TV technology. John writes and speaks regularly on a range of topics relating to interactive media. All three of the independent legal directories rank him as one of the UK's leading practitioners in e-commerce and digital media. John is a member of the DTI Foresight Programme's working party on the Future of Information Relationships and author of the "Distribution of Audiovisual Content" chapter of Global Telecommunications Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell).
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Dawn Osborne
Palmer Biggs Legal
Dawn has been a Partner at Palmer Biggs Legal since June 2009, having previously worked at Rouse & Co as a Partner for over ten years.
Dawn specialises in IP litigation, including copyright and trade marks on the internet and was
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involved in the reported Pitman and Prince domain name litigation. Her expertise in online alternative dispute resolution mechanisms has led her to be a panellist for the WIPO and NAF deciding domain name disputes under the ICANN procedure and for Nominet and .eu for their procedures. She is a Board Member of the Federation Against Software Theft and Chairman of their Legal Action Group FLAG. Dawn is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Mark Owen
Harbottle & Lewis LLP
Mark is a Partner with Harbottle & Lewis LLP, where he heads the IP group. He specialises in digital media, intellectual property and e-commerce issues, and advises clients across the digital content and marketing sectors. Mark is also a member
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of the California Bar having worked in the Silicon Valley on software and semiconductor litigation, and is also a committee member of INTA and the Law Society's IP working party. He writes, speaks and tweets frequently on issues affecting advanced media and communications law.
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Tim Penny
11 Stone Buildings
Tim is a barrister at 11 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. His practice involves chancery/commercial, intellectual property and IT related issues. Recent litigation has involved the Metalrax case (reported here in Vol 2 Issue 1) and numerous internet-related disputes involving database
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rights, copyright and data protection. Advisory work includes advising a major telecoms provider on European data protection issues. Recommended as junior Counsel in The Legal 500 in connection with Sports Law.
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Steven Philippsohn
PCB Litigation
Steven is a leading authority on the management of international commercial litigation and arbitration. Over the last 20 years his firm has been retained by governmental, national and international organisations. His firm, PCB Litigation, has an extensive international network
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of experienced lawyers.
The Legal 500 has singled out Steven as being “focused and creative”. He has been described him as “always seeking to push the boundaries of what you can achieve to maximise a client's position - he thinks outside the box" and as "a wise and excellent strategist” who “has a breadth and depth of experience, extensive knowledge of the market, and a willingness to take things on" (Chambers 2011) and as a "brilliant thinker" according to market sources, who also commend him for his tenacity as a litigator. He is noted for his involvement in litigating disputes involving clients from the CIS and has recently been acting for Ukrnafta, the largest producer of oil and gas in Ukraine, in litigation arising from an oilfield dispute which is taking place in a number of jurisdictions outside the UK (Chambers 2013).
The Legal 500 and Chambers 2009 have identified PCB as a leading litigation practice and The Times describe PCB as "solicitors to the banking community" and “operating across a global landscape, recovering and protecting clients’ assets over borders and through multiple jurisdictions”. For a number of years Steven was Deputy Chairman and is still a Board Member of the Fraud Advisory Panel (www.fraudadvisorypanel.org) and the UK representative of Fraudnet, a global network of fraud litigation practitioners (www.icc-fraudnet.com).
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Stewart Room
Field Fisher Waterhouse
Stewart is a partner in Field Fisher Waterhouse's Technology and Outsourcing Group, where he specialises in data protection, privacy and data security law.
Stewart is a dual qualified barrister and a solicitor holding full Higher Court Rights of Audience, with 20
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years’ experience as a litigator and advocate. Stewart is rated as one of the UK’s leading data protection lawyers, with considerable expertise and reputation in data protection and data security matters. Legal 500 2010 says that “Stewart Room ‘has carved out a niche in data security’ and ‘has unparalleled depth of knowledge’.” Chambers UK 2011 says “Stewart Room has enviable technological expertise and brings his skills as a barrister to bear on contentious matters. Clients praise him as ‘rigorous, dynamic and always aware of the technological issues.’” Chambers UK 2012 says “Stewart Room is the kind of lawyer who inspires confidence and is an expert in advising on security breaches.”
Stewart has written three leading text books on information law, including the UK's seminal work "Data Security Law and Practice", published by Butterworths LexisNexis.
Stewart's key areas of specialisation include representing data controllers in regulatory enforcement action and defending them in litigation, cyber security and data security, handling data security breaches and other incidents, the technological aspects of data processing and managing international projects.
In 2008 Stewart was named as the Financial Times Legal Innovator of the Year, for his work with global IT companies on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. In 2010 his data security practice was Highly Commended by the FT Legal Innovators Awards. Stewart is also a Director of Cyber Security Challenge UK, the President of the National Association of Data Protection Officers, a member of the InfoSec Europe Advisory Board and a member of the RSA Conference Europe selection panel.
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Stephen Sidkin
Fox Williams
Stephen is a founding partner of Fox Williams. He specialises in advising on agency and distributorship agreements and competition law. He frequently writes on disintermediation, the effect of e-commerce on agency and distributorship agreements and the competition law aspects of
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B2B exchanges. Stephen is featured in Mondaq's Survey of Leading Internet & E-Commerce Lawyers. He is a member of the Society for Computers & Law and a member and past chairman of the Commercial Law Sub-Committee of the City of London Law Society, the sub-committee which has taken the lead in considering issues of e-commerce law on behalf of the Society.
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